🧵 Saga file #52
Trump's Texas Senate race tensions
Oct 7, 12 PM ET to Oct 17, 1 PM ET
- 2parts so far
- 40outlets carried a part
- 🫏19 · 7 · 13🐘left · center · right
- 10 daysrunning so far
- 184 minof TV captions
- 7radio newscasts
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 7, 12 PM ET · on the front pages 2.3 daysTrump interrupted by protesters at Texas rally
- Oct 15, 7 PM ET · on the front pages 1.7 daysTrump blames Cornyn and Rove if Paxton loses Texas Senate race
📰 Spread
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🧩 The parts
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1. Trump interrupted by protesters at Texas rally
Oct 7, 12 PM ET · 37 outlets · on the front pages 2.3 days
“Trump Has Meltdown Over His Dwindling Crowd Sizes: ‘Thousands Were Turned Away!’” first: HuffPost
📺 CNN 145 min, MSNOW 23 min, Fox News 8 min, BBC News 7 min · 📻 7 newscasts
2. Trump blames Cornyn and Rove if Paxton loses Texas Senate race
Oct 15, 7 PM ET · 15 outlets · on the front pages 1.7 days
“Trump Starts Blame Game For Ken Paxton Losing, Points Finger at John Cornyn and Karl Rove” first: Mediaite
📺 MSNOW 6 s
🧩 How it's been told
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🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.